Concise technical writing: ‘And’ vs ‘as well as’

Описание: Better quality writing is easier for readers and reviewers to understand. If readers understand your work more easily, they will read for longer, be more interested, and will be more likely to finish your document. The real-world outcome is decreased rejection rates, increased acceptance rates, more citations, and more funding.
The Expert Scientific Writing Techniques course will walk you through grammar, sentence structure, paragraph structure, editing techniques, and more, to allow you to make your writing of high quality.
When you complete this course and all the worksheets and quizzes, you will have a firm understanding of what makes good scientific writing, and you will know how to accomplish it. You will be able to recognize errors in your scientific writing and correct them, as well as make your writing concise and coherent. You will know key characteristics of readability, and you will be able to generate highly readable text.

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This course is an excellent companion to the Write Your Scientific Journal Article course (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list..., where we focus on the steps and the process of getting your manuscript or thesis chapter DONE.

Curriculum:
Lesson 1: Introduction to Expert Scientific Writing Techniques
Why is scientific writing so bad? Good technical writing how-to
Lesson 2: Coherent sentences in the English language
Part 1: How to use the 8 parts of speech in the English language
Part 2: How to structure sentences in the English language
Part 3: How to use tenses when writing in the English language
Part 4: How to use articles when writing in the English language
Part 5: How to use plurals when writing in the English language
Pat 6: Active & passive voice; first, second, and third person in English
Lesson 3: Technical writing: What’s it all about?
Part 1: Fundamentals of technical writing, and defining purpose
Part 2: Addressing scope and audience in technical writing
Lesson 4: Readability and how to achieve it
Part 1: What is readability and how is it measured?
Part 2: The first 3 steps for improving readability in technical writing
Part 3: Editing to make abstract nouns into concrete nouns
Part 4: Steps 4 to 7 for improving readability in technical writing
Part 5: Abbreviations in technical writing and how to improve visual readability
Lesson 5: Structure your sentences and paragraphs for impact
Part 1: How to structure paragraphs in technical writing
Part 2: Characteristics of good paragraphs in technical writing
Part 3: Common problems of paragraphs in technical writing
Part 4: How to structure sentences in technical writing
Part 5: Tips for sentences that make good paragraphs in technical writing
Part 6: How transitions and metadiscourse hold paragraphs together
Lesson 6: Words and punctuation with a punch
Part 1: Technical writing skills: Precise and specific words
Part 2: Avoiding jargon and buzzwords in technical writing
Part 3: How to use clear pronouns in technical writing
Part 4: How using articles (or not) changes the meaning of technical writing
Part 5: Word choice in technical writing: That or which?
Part 6: Using nouns as verbs or adjectives? More technical writing skills
Part 7: How to emphasize meaning by word placement
Part 8: Countable and uncountable: Less vs fewer, much vs many
Part 9: Common punctuation problems in technical writing
Lesson 7: Keep your reader engaged by writing with clarity
Part 1: Clarity in technical writing: Noun clusters and jargon
Part 2: Starting a sentence in the middle of an idea
Part 3: Avoiding overly fancy language in technical writing
Part 4: Clarity in technical writing: Using clear modifiers
Part 5: Can it do that? Avoiding faulty predication in technical writing
Part 6: Clarity within a sentence: Avoid faulty coordination
Part 7: Where to place the subject and verb in a technical writing sentence
Part 8: Clarity in technical writing: Respectively gets no respect
Part 9: Clarity in technical writing: Matching noun and verb tenses
Lesson 8: Keep your reader awake and alert by being concise
Part 1: Concise technical writing: How many ideas per sentence?
Part 2: Revive zombie nouns (nominalizations) with active voice
Part 3: Concise technical writing: Is that really necessary?
Part 4: Concise technical writing: Get to the point already
Part 5: Omit the overviews in technical writing
Part 6: Concise technical writing: ‘And’ vs ‘as well as’
Part 7: Has beens in technical writing
Part 8: Concise technical writing: Weasel words and tangents